ETHICS Flashcards
are not meant to restrict our freedom. They are meant to help you grow in freedom, to grow in your ability to choose and do what is good for you and others.
Rules
are norms or prescriptions that serve as the frameworks for determining what ought to be done or what is right or wrong action, what is good or bad character.
Moral standards
are social rules, demands of etiquette and good manners. They are guides of action which should be followed as expected by society.
Non-moral standards
consists of language, values, rules, knowledge, and meanings shared by members of society.
Non-material culture
is the physical object that a society produces—tools, streets, homes, and toys, to name a few.”
Material Culture
is a branch of philosophy that deals with moral standards, inquires about the rightness and wrongness of human behavior or the goodness or badness of personality, trait or character.
Ethics
God is the ultimate source of what is moral revealed to human persons.
For theist
is the cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.
Acculturation
Who said “Do unto others what you like others to do unto you.”
-CONFUCIUS
is considered as the “moral agent”.
Human person
holds that the rightness and wrongness of an action or rule depends on sense of duty, natural law, virtue and the demand of the situation or circumstances.
Deontology
includes all human phenomena which are not purely results of human genetics.
Culture
God is not the source of morality. Moral standards are based on the wisdom of sages like Confucius or philosophers like Immanuel Kant.
For non- theists
prevents human persons from doing and being good ought to be repealed. They have no reason to exist.
Any rule or law
is the adjective describing a human act as either ethically right or wrong, or qualifying a person, personality, character, as either ethically good or bad.
Moral
